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Rose, I. Nelson |
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BASIS Online |
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A federal magistrate has just ruled that foreign internet gambling companies are not required to pay U.S. excise taxes on wagers, if the companies have been set up correctly. The decision is by no means final. But if upheld, it will eventually save internet operators billions of dollars, for bets taken from Americans. Not that any of those companies are actually sending checks to the IRS. But their executives who made the mistake, say, of changing planes in Dallas, have been arrested and charged with tax evasion. A conviction means years in prison, and millions owed to the IRS. |
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Rose, I. Nelson |
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BASIS Online |
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Here’s a quote that should scare anyone involved with any form of legal gaming. The federal Department of Justice (“DOJ”) got Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to agree to pay $31.5 million in fines to settle claims that they had promoted illegal gambling by running ads on the Internet. The DOJ announced that the fines were “for corporate conduct the government found in violation of the Federal Wire Wager Act, federal wagering excise tax laws, and various states' statutes and municipal laws prohibiting gambling.” The DOJ has been waging a war of intimidation against Internet gambling for almost 10 years. It has been effective, although slightly deceptive. |
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Division on Addictions, Cambridge Health Alliance |
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The Wager |
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Self-limit programs (i.e., programs offered by casinos or Internet gambling sites that impose wagering or deposit limits) are intended to reduce gambling-related harms. This week the WAGER examines the Internet sports gambling behavior of people using the self-limit program of a prominent Internet gambling site (Nelson, LaPlante, Peller, Schumann, LaBrie, & Shaffer, 2008). |
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Rose, I. Nelson |
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On February 5, 2008, Californians voted on whether four tribes could triple the number of slot machines in their casinos, from 8,000 to 25,000. The tribes won. If they hadn’t, there would have been years of ugly lawsuits. Opponents, primarily unions and competing tribal casinos and racetracks, believe the legal mess was created by underhanded attempts to guarantee that these four tribes would get their slots, even if the voters disapproved. I believe the problems were the result of federal and state bureaucrats following what they thought was the letter of the law, without using common sense. |
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Focal Research Consultants |
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Nova Scotia Health Promotion and Protection |
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The 2007 Nova Scotia Adult Gambling Prevalence Study, commissioned by Nova Scotia Health Promotion and Protection (NSHPP), marks the fourth such study to be conducted in the province and the second using the Canadian Problem Gambling Index. This report describes the prevalence of gambling and problem gambling among adults 19 years of age and older who are permanent residents of Nova Scotia, living in private households (n=2,500). It also describes the changes that occurred between 2003 and 2007. In addition to the adult survey, supplementary surveys were administered to a select sub-sample of young adults 19-34 years (n=240) and youth (n=85) living in these randomly selected households. |
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Rose, I. Nelson |
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BASIS Online |
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Is poker a game of skill? In states without licensed cardrooms, the answer will almost always determine whether it is legal to operate the game as a business. In about half the states, it would also determine whether merely playing in a commercial game is a crime. States do have the right to put restrictions on games of skill played for money. They may even be able to outlaw them completely, although there is case law holding that governments cannot discriminate by picking on only certain skill games. |
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Scholes, Shaun; Wardle, Heather; Sproston, Kerry |
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National Centre for Social Research |
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Participation in surveys such as the British Gambling Prevalence Survey (BGPS) 2007 is a sequence of many steps – from the selection of a sample of addresses to the transferral of full interview data from respondents to the survey organisation. Each step of the process represents an opportunity for non-response to occur - potentially introducing bias into key survey estimates as the behaviour and views of those who do not respond may be different from those who do participate. The aim of this report was to examine potential non-response biases to the BGPS 2007 in three main areas. These were: 1) Household non-response - where the selected household does not participate for whatever reason. 2) Individual non-response - where an eligible respondent aged 16 and over, within a co-operating household, does not participate. 3) Item non-response – where a respondent chooses not to answer certain survey questions. |
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Vaughan Williams, Leighton; Page, Lionel; Parke, Jonathan |
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Gambling Commission [UK] |
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The central aim of this analysis was to explore the original British Gambling Prevalence Survey (BGPS) 2007 data using sophisticated statistical techniques to learn more about gambling participation, problem gambling, treatment seeking and gambling behaviour among young people. The findings from this analysis may be useful in further understanding various aspects of gambling behaviour; developing understanding of issues related to the planning and design of future prevalence surveys and other research projects; and should serve generally to help inform the debate regarding gambling-related policy. |
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Wood, Richard T.A. |
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Responsibility in Gambling Trust |
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The present study was designed to examine the effectiveness of UK online support forums for helping problem gamblers and others affected by problem gambling. There are currently two online support forums in the UK related to gambling problems and both took part in the study. The results do not differentiate between the two forums but instead detail the benefits and limitations of those forums more generally. The study is the first of its kind in the UK to study online support forums for gambling related problems, and is only the second study of this kind world-wide. The evaluation utilised a between methods triangulation in order to examine both primary and secondary data relating to the forum members’ experiences. |
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Griffiths, Mark; Wardle, Heather; Erens, Bob |
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Gambling Commission [UK] |
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This study provides the first ever analysis of a representative national sample of internet gamblers. Using participant data from the 2007 British Gambling Prevalence Survey (n = 9003 adults aged 16 years and over), all participants who had gambled online, bet online, and/or who had used a betting exchange in the last 12 months (n = 476) were compared with all other gamblers who had not gambled via the internet. Overall, results showed a number of significant socio-demographic differences between internet gamblers and noninternet gamblers. When compared to non-internet gamblers, internet gamblers were more likely to be male, relatively young adults, single, well educated, and in professional/ managerial employment. Further analysis of DSM-IV scores showed that the problem gambling prevalence rate was significantly higher among internet gamblers than noninternet gamblers. It was also found that some items on the DSM-IV were more heavily endorsed by internet gamblers including gambling preoccupation and gambling to escape. Although the data does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about causation, the results may mean that the medium of the internet may be more likely to contribute to problem gambling than off-line gambling environments. However, more work is needed in this area if firm conclusions are to be drawn. |
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